Google's AI gurus ran tests to try and understand how the human brain works on a subway

Google’s AI gurus ran tests to try and understand how the human brain works on a subway

Google DeepMindGoogle DeepMind cofounder and CEO Demis Hassabis. Neuroscientists at DeepMind, a Google-owned AI lab in London, have teamed up with academics at Oxford University and UCL to try and determine how the human brain navigates an underground train network. The group — whose work was published in the journal Neuron this week — asked humans to plan a journey in a virtual subway network. Participants were tasked with getting from A to B while MRI scans of their brain were taken. These scans showed which parts of the brain are involved in planning and making decisions. The group, which included Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, concluded that the brain splits the task of completing a journey into different jobs, with different parts of the brain handling different elements of…